Its a new Spring!
A collection of (strong) links to some of the articles that caught my attention during the last week:
Understanding the Japanese Catastrophe
- Science and engineering of earthquakes and tsunamis at Scientific American from A Blog Around The Clock
- The Tsunami’s Ripple Effect from Wired Science by Brian Romans
- Anatomy of a tsunami from guardian.co.uk by GrrlScientist
- Fukushima Crisis: Radiation exposure, beyond the numbers from The Great Beyond
- Why Iodine Tablets Come Out When Radiation Threatens from NPR Topics: Science
- Interactive: A Visual Guide Inside Japan’s Reactors from NPR Topics: Science
- Explainer: What Are Spent Fuel Rods? from NPR Topics: Science
- Historic tsunamis in Japan from History of geology
Environment
- Non-nuclear clean energy to double by 2020; Clean-energy companies jump for second day after Japan nuke disaster from Climate Progress
- More jobs could be created with strong climate policies than without: report (blog) from Pembina Institute News
- Reducing Pollution, Creating Jobs (publication) from Pembina Institute News
Evolution
- Our closest relatives – a visual tour of the primates from Not Exactly Rocket Science
- Glimpses of the Fourth Domain? from the Loom
Anthropology
- What’s New With Hobbits from Inside NOVA
Conservation
- Costa Rica Creates Giant Marine Reserve from Oceanic Defense
Natural History
- Corvid Cousins from The Last Word On Nothing
- A blessing of bee-eaters from mainly mongoose
Unfaithful
- The evidence for god: an exchange with Anthony Grayling from Why Evolution Is True
- Can There Be a Testable Hypothesis for the Existence of God? from Tangled Up in Blue Guy
